Thetawaves is a song by System Of A Down which appears on their record Steal This Album. The song opens up with an extremely aggressive and heavy rhythm led by Daron Malakian and John Dolmayan Tankian comes in with the vocals for the track, but surprisingly they’re really not …

The first time I heard the song I can say the song is an average song until it is use in the movie Confession of a Shopaholic as a theme song. It fit the two characters in the movie and I begin to like it. Stuck with each other …

There is something to be said for a song that seems to at first say one thing, through its music and lyrics, then completely changes up the tone of the entire song using a slight variation of those same lyrics and same music. It surprises you initially, then you …

Alot of people for first guitars are picking up cheap imitational fender guitars all of which feature awful strings and a crap fretboard. The only reason they pick up is for there price of around 150 with a small sometimes battery powered amp.
If you are seriously looking into …

This record is magnificent, it is brilliant. The Fragile is definitely one of the most interesting music albums I have ever come across. The previous NIN album was good, but this record, The Fragile has many features which are absent on The Downward Spiral. It has a lot more …

After Van Halen Split up David Lee Roth still pulled off an excellent solo career wih an ep like Crazy From the Heat and the 1986 release of Eat’Em and Smile. One of the tracks that most people are familiar with is the song Yankee Rose which is a …

A great live DVD by a great progressive band is the Rush live in Rio DVD. This is a really good live DVD. It features the three virtuosos playing a big set in Rio and the crowd just goes crazy especially for the big Rush songs like Tom Sawyer, …

All Alone is a song by The Gorillaz which appears on their record Demon Days. The song opens up with an interesting electronic rhythm which is then accompanied by a vocal section which sings a repetitive chant of “all alone”. Throughout this section of the track the overall mood …

Cave is a song by Muse which appears on their first record, Showbiz. The track opens up with an interesting sound led by a distorted guitar riff which has a space-like sound to it. Bellamy comes in with the first verse about forty seconds into the track with a …

On the fifth album, Counting Crows deliberately to display two different themes. On side A, we are treated to color hard rock music, while the B side, bringing us to the nuances of folk. This album in a short time was ranked 3rd U.S. Billboard 200. Long enough for …

‘It’s Me Again Margret’ is another one of Ray Stevens many greatest hits. I sometimes wonder how he comes up with so many great songs. This song though is about a very important issue in our society. It makes it out to be funny but stocking can be …

Miley Cyrus is a very popular Disney Channel star whose show was based around her being a singer and leading a double life. This show has brought her into the real world of being Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana and it has also brought about the release of her second song, …

The danelectro danoblaster guitar that I recenty borrowed froma freind is a neat assembly of parts.This guitar was made in korea and has a floyd rose type bridge that lays flat against the body which only makes it good for diving.It’s painted black with a mother of pearl …

Winters Love is a song by Animal Collective which appears on their record Sung Tongs. Split into two unique sections, Winters Love first opens up with an instrumental section led by an acoustic guitar pattern (Though there is some vocal humming over the top of this) before going into …

It’s All Too Much is a song by The Beatles which appears on their record Yellow Submarine. The track starts off with some guitar distortion, having somewhat of a psychedelic sound, before an organ part also enters in the song which reinforces this psychedelic tone. Once the main rhythm …

This is one of the best albums put out my the band Death Cab For Cutie. We Have The Facts and We’re Voting Yes is a fantastic album, filled with indie rock like music that will get you singing. I recieved this album as a gift from a friend …

Of Wolf And Man is my personal favorite aggressive track on The Black Album. Overall, my favorite song on this album would have to be The Unforgiven, but as far as one of the aggressive tracks on this album, Of Wolf And Man would certainly be my favorite. I …

This is one solid CD. I am a fan of this band and I have been for a while now. Their previous CD was amazing and I had high expectations for this one. I was right. This CD was everything I had hoped it would be. The CD cover …

City Of Delusion is a track by Muse which appears on Black Holes And Revelation. Although I do not consider City Of Delusion to be quite as good as some of the other tracks on this record such as Take A Bow or Map Of The Problematique, I certainly …

Recently I got myself a 5-string bass guitar and it`s a brand called Ashton which is the first time that I`ve heard of it and it`s also the first time that I`m going to use an unpopular brand of bass guitar.
This instrument is a product of Ashton Music, an …

Dreamend is an underappreciated post-rock or showgaze band that has actually been quite productive over the last ten years. Stigmata Boy is one of their earliest recordings and has more singing in it than other of their albums. In most cases I don’t like to much of singing in …

My father used to say that music was his second language and I guess I inherited his DNA.
I so enjoy musicians and I’ve married three. I guess that qualifies me as someone that knows what is hard or easy on the ears, to a degree. Music is always subjective, as …

Overview - Axis: Bold As Love, the second effort by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, is a bit similar to their debut album, Are You Experienced, but has a few more melodic songs, a nice touch. I’ll say right now that I personally thought Are You Experienced was a brilliant …

I’ve been following Susan Boyle’s career ever since I saw her awesome performance of I Dreamed a Dream in Britain’s Got Talent. I was not really a diehard fan but I acknowledge her talent and I felt quite touched that a woman who is not young at all and …

R. Kelly
“Thank God It’s Friday”
R. Kelly
Jive/Zomba Recordings
Director: Hype Williams
“Thank God It’s Friday” is the third single and music video from his self-titled second solo album, “R. Kelly”; it follows “You Remind Me of Something” and “Down Low (Nobody Has To Know)”. Considering the previous success of “Down Low (Nobody …

Jay-Z ft. Gwen Dickey
“Wishing on a Star”
In My Lifetime, Volume 1
Roc-A-Fella Records
“Wishing on a Star” is a little known single and music video that can only be found on the United Kingdom release of his second album “In My Lifetime, Volume 1″. No wonder it’s so little known because …

I have been a fan of Muse for a little over two years. Until recently, my favorite CD of theirs was Black Holes and Revelations. Now, they have proven that they can even top that!
The Resistance is a great CD for any Muse fan to have for a mumber …

Artist: Beyonce
Video: “Sweet Dreams”
Album: I Am… Sasha Fierce
Label: Columbia
Director: Adria Petty
Beyonce ditches the black and white cinematography formula for color once again ( as she did for “Halo”). I’m not sure if a dream with Beyonce would be a nightmare or a sweet dream, it depends - If it …

I am sure that some people might not understand the beauty of the music on this album but I personally do find beauty in this music and below I will try to explain why the nine songs that were released by Sonic Youth in 1983 are attractive to me …

Recently I just rediscovered the band “The Flaming Lips”. They are an American rock band that was formed sometime in the nineteen eighties, but gained the most of their fans and became the most popular sometime in the nineteen nineties.
What I absolutely love about the bands “The Flaming …

Avenged Sevenfold is the band Avenged Sevenfold’s 5th album, and is obviously self-titled. It is a great album with very little screaming, and extremely skillful guitar solos. Sadly, some songs on the album, like “A Little Piece of Heaven” are incredibly messed up, and really have no musical value …

Of course the circumstances that are surrounding the death of Adam Yauch are very sad indeed, and it is very unfortunate that he died from cancer, and I mention this because at the moment I cannot listen to this last album by Beastie Boys without remembering about this tragic …

White horse by Taylor Swift is a song that makes a lot of sense to me because it describes a lot of relationships now days. It makes even more sense to me because I know what it is like to live in a small town and fall in love …

Paranoid is Black Sabbath’s second album released in 1970 under Vertigo Records in the UK and distributed by Warner Bros in the US. The band recorded the album the same year as their last album with the same producer Rodger Bain. The song Paranoid was recorded at the last …

So, the buzz about this new album is certainly flowing around the heavy metal landscape as anticipation rises to near manic status. I was blessed with an advance copy of this album to have a look at and i must say that i am pretty underwhelmed by the whole …

Artist: Destiny’s Child ft. Jermaine Dupri
Video: With Me, Part 1
Album: Destiny’s Child
Label: Columbia Records
Director: Darren Grant
“With Me, Part 1″ is the third single and music video from Destiny’s Child’s self-titled debut album, followed by “No, No, No (Part 1)” and “No, No, No (Part 2)”. This time, the female …

Lupe Fiesco is a conscious rapper who got his start on ‘Touch the Sky’ by Kanye West. Since then he has been compared to Mos Def and Common and declared one of the most talented artists in Rap today. This is probably because Fiesco chooses to stay away from …

Trust me, this album is very special. I remember how I listened to this album for the first time, and how I was impressed by what I heard. I liked the debut album by U2, called Boy. I did not like the second album, October, at all. But then …

If you love the sound of Death Cab For Cutie, then you’ll enjoy Ben Gibbards otehr project The Postal Service. What makes the postal service a little different than deathcab is the electronic sound and beats within their songs. In most cases the songs could not be recreasted in …

Neil Young is probaably one of the most famous artists in music today. Neil Young ha been around since the ’60’s and is one of the artist which I heard all the time growing up. My parents both love him and though I think that some of his songs …

Since I started to listen to music on my iPod, I started to get into many songs by Abba, Mainly because i heard them at parties and on the radio etc. I concluded that I liked the music so much that I went and downloaded Gold by Abba. This to …

I have been a fan of Troye Sivan since his early days in YouTube! Just a little background for those who are new to him, Troye Sivan is a popular YouTube blogger from Australia, he’s still young and he’s openly gay.
He released his first EP (short for extended play) …

Don’t Leave Me Now is a song by Pink Floyd which appears on their concept record, The Wall. I don’t really want to go into much explanation about the story which goes on with this song since it’s useless to explain without the entire context of The Wall. The …

It is impossible to put together all the great hits of this fantastic and flamboyant British singer. It is impossible. It is impossible because there is not enough space on two Cd’s for it.
Elton John is one of the geniuses of the pop music of the past 30 years, …

Oh My Gawd is the sophomore effort released by The Flaming Lips which follows their debut album, Hear It Is. Taking a slightly more aggressive sound than most of the tracks on Hear It Is, Oh My Gawd is still an album which covers quite a bit of musical …

Don’t blink by Kenny Chesney is a song about how if you blink your whole life can go faster than you think. It’s like telling you not to waste a minute of your life because you never know what you may miss and you don’t want to miss a …

21st Century Breakdown is the title track of the most recent record released by Green Day. The song opens up in a very simple fashion of just acoustic guitar chords coming in and out but the song gradually builds, particularly thanks to Cool’s pounding drum rhythm which gets louder …

Smashing Pumpkins is a dreamy rock band that came to form in 1988. After 10 years and some lineup changes, the fantastic album Adore, Smashing Pumpkins’ 5th album, was born. This album contains a list of tracks that range anywhere from an upbeat, swift rock songs to relaxing, musing …

I have used Yamaha PSR290 Keyboard while learning to play but as it didn’t have one touch voice change, and the price of Roland XP50 had gone down since the introduction of XP60 series, I bought a used Roland XP50 workstation for 100 pounds on e-bay. I had heard …

We all know that when it comes down to great singers, gospel singers are among the best. Almost all the major artists out there have their roots in the church. But Anthony Evans is definitely an exception. He is not just a talented singer, but he himself is a …